5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)最新文献

{"title":"Indoor air CO2 assessment of classrooms of educational institutes of hyderabad city and its comparison with other countries","authors":"M. Soomro, S. Memon, M. M. Shaikh, A. Channa","doi":"10.1063/1.5115373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115373","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor air quality is given lot of importance in modern societies and healthy environment. We spend most of time at indoor homes, workplace, offices, schools, hospitals, factories or even at the shopping malls e.t.c. The buildings may have good or bad indoor air quality (IAQ). Bad indoor air quality leads adverse impacts. If the Indoor air quality is not so good and tends to get poor then it affects the health, and the apparent effects get severe ultimately causing death. This study focuses on the assessment indoor air CO2 in classrooms of the educational institutes. To conduct the research work, many important studies from literature are surveyed and the standard followed internationally for the normal and abnormal levels of indoor air CO2 are kept as reference to rate the measured values. For the purpose of analysis, one government school, two private schools and two private centers are selected. During various visits to the institutions the required physical data regarding dimensions and conditions of classrooms are collected, which consists of number of doors, windows with dimensions and location, ventilation mode and number of fans etc. For noting these results, a data sheet is used. A questionnaire is also used to know the perceptions of teachers of these institutes about the impact of IAQ on the performance of students, teachers and several factors are analyzed in SPSS software. The indoor air CO2 is found to be in fair, good and excellent ranges in most of the institutes. However, in some classrooms, the CO2 concentrations is in higher ranges indicating the possibility of contaminated air, and this demanding more ways of ventilation.","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116075707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cr(VI) heavy metal adsorption from aqueous solution by KOH treated hydrochar derived from agricultural wastes","authors":"Shujauddin Khushk, Lei Zhang, Abdul Majeed Pirzada, M. Irfan, Aimin Li","doi":"10.1063/1.5115362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115362","url":null,"abstract":"Chromium is widely present on earth’s crust. The removal of wastewater from processing industries using chromium has been an emerging and challenging research field these days as it causes several health problems. In this study, hydrochars were generated from eucalyptus sawdust (ESD), corn straw (CS) and corncob (CB) via microwave- assisted hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of waste biomass. The carbonized material was further treated by different alkali modifications (KOH N 0.01, KOH N 0.05 and KOH N 0.1), targeting the efficient removal of Cr (VI) from aqueous solution. Microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) temperature was kept at 220 °C. Adsorption parameters such as pH, temperature, hydrochar quantity and reaction time were optimized. Adsorption experiments were carried out for Cr(VI) removal where: pH 2, 25 °C, and 2.5 g/L hydrochar quantity were found as optimum conditions. Adsorption capacity (mg/g) at equilibrium conditions was found as 34.07mg/g, 30.15 mg/g, 29.46 mg/g for ESD, CS and CC, respectively, which were compared with commercial activated carbon as a control. SEM, BET and FTIR analysis were carried out to determine the surface morphology, surface BET area and functional groups of the hydrochars. These results indicated that hydrochars (from waste biomass) modified by KOH treatment have the efficiency to remove Cr(VI). The findings of this study suggested that the hydrochars from waste biomass could be considered as the low cost adsorbents for Cr(VI) removal and this would help in environmental applications for heavy metals removal.Chromium is widely present on earth’s crust. The removal of wastewater from processing industries using chromium has been an emerging and challenging research field these days as it causes several health problems. In this study, hydrochars were generated from eucalyptus sawdust (ESD), corn straw (CS) and corncob (CB) via microwave- assisted hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of waste biomass. The carbonized material was further treated by different alkali modifications (KOH N 0.01, KOH N 0.05 and KOH N 0.1), targeting the efficient removal of Cr (VI) from aqueous solution. Microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) temperature was kept at 220 °C. Adsorption parameters such as pH, temperature, hydrochar quantity and reaction time were optimized. Adsorption experiments were carried out for Cr(VI) removal where: pH 2, 25 °C, and 2.5 g/L hydrochar quantity were found as optimum conditions. Adsorption capacity (mg/g) at equilibrium conditions was found as 34.07mg/g, 30.15 mg/g, 29.46 mg/g for ESD, CS an...","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131387158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building energy efficiency policies and practices in Pakistan: A literature review","authors":"Waqas Ahmed Mahar, N. Anwar, S. Attia","doi":"10.1063/1.5115364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115364","url":null,"abstract":"The household sector in Pakistan became the largest consumer of electricity which is responsible for more than 51% of the national consumption. The Building Energy Code of Pakistan was developed in 1990, yet the institutional setup regarding energy efficiency & conservation is inadequate. There is lack of experts and implementation of policies at national and provincial level. The study aims to explore the energy efficiency and conservation policies in Pakistan and their impact on reducing household energy consumption. The issues related to the implementation of policies across the country have been further discussed. The paper provides an overview of the energy sector and its challenges related to residential buildings. Energy policies, standards and literature related to building sector were analyzed and discussed with the experts. Moreover, suggestions and recommendations are made for the possible solutions and improvement of the existing situation.The household sector in Pakistan became the largest consumer of electricity which is responsible for more than 51% of the national consumption. The Building Energy Code of Pakistan was developed in 1990, yet the institutional setup regarding energy efficiency & conservation is inadequate. There is lack of experts and implementation of policies at national and provincial level. The study aims to explore the energy efficiency and conservation policies in Pakistan and their impact on reducing household energy consumption. The issues related to the implementation of policies across the country have been further discussed. The paper provides an overview of the energy sector and its challenges related to residential buildings. Energy policies, standards and literature related to building sector were analyzed and discussed with the experts. Moreover, suggestions and recommendations are made for the possible solutions and improvement of the existing situation.","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127889433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Simulation of efficient non-isolated DC-DC boost converter topology for photovoltaic application","authors":"Abdul Malik Mahar, P. Shaikh, Adil Rehman Mahar, Z. Memon, Shoaib Ahmed Khatri, Syed Feroz Shah","doi":"10.1063/1.5115378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124930020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power generation potential of municipal solid waste through direct flame incinerator","authors":"M. Arain, I. Jokhio, Kundan Narsani, A. Channa, Mehr-un-Nisa Qureshi","doi":"10.1063/1.5115381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123746761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preface: 5th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD-2018)","authors":"K. Harijan","doi":"10.1063/1.5115358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294515,"journal":{"name":"5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EESD-2018)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124733526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}